標題:What will humans do if technology solves everything?

Welcome to a high-tech utopia

正文：In “permutation city”, a novel by Greg Egan, the character Peer, having achieved immortality within a virtual reality over which he has total control, finds himself terribly bored. So he engineers himself to have new passions. One moment he is pushing the boundaries of higher mathematics; the next he is writing operas. “He’d even been interested in the Elysians [the afterlife], once. No longer. He preferred to think about table legs.” Peer’s fickleness relates to a deeper point. When technology has solved humanity’s deepest problems, what is left to do?

知識點：utopia

If you refer to an imaginary situation as a utopia, you mean that it is one in which society is perfect and everyone is happy.

理想社會; 烏托邦

We weren‘t out to design a contemporary utopia.

我們不想去設計一個當代烏托邦。

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